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Beyond the Box of ‘Eating Disorder’ - Everyday Livingness
When I first ventured to find a solution to what was at the time diagnosed as an ‘eating disorder’, I went seeking a way to fix having this ‘disorder’, how to resolve the symptoms and not have them present in my life any longer. At this point I was approaching healing from the viewpoint of having a disorder that needed healing. What I observed about this attitude towards healing was that it limited me to only seek support based upon the symptoms of the named disorder and not ever to look deeper than those symptoms alone. I was approaching healing within the box of ‘eating disorder’ and that is where I stayed until I could so clearly see that I was only going around in circles (up the walls of a box) and not truly ever getting out! For some time that suited me as I was not calling for the deep healing that was otherwise available. I was still enthralled in what having an eating disorder gave me, keeping me numb from feeling and sensing in the world – something that was really so natural to me, yet I was too afraid to be that sensitive under the guise ...
Giselle Cavanagh